Spoiling the fun for those who wanted to bask in the glow of Sandra Bullock’s haircut for a little while longer and not pick apart the, ugh, realism, famous space guy Neil deGrasse Tyson went off on Twitter last night over all the scientific inaccuracies in Alfonso Cuarón’s massively entertaining/asthma attack-inducing (and at least somewhat plausible) Gravity. Sadly, none of the tweets begin with, “…and what’s the deal with…”; rather, Tyson started, “The film #Gravity should be renamed Zero Gravity,” which, ask your friendly neighbor astrophysicist.

I wouldn’t call him the embodiment of the “I fucking love science” idiot herd. He’s a well-respected astrophysicist who has spent decades working on something he very clearly loves. These idiots are just riding a trend of worshiping him because he’s “SOOO NERDY HE LOVES STAR WARS, THE ORIGINAL STAR TREK BY JJ ABRAMS, AND HE DOES THE SCIENCE!” Just because idiots worship him, and he uses that to get the object his passion more exposure, doesn’t mean he’s representative of them.

Buzz Aldrin wrote that he enjoyed the film very much. Although he had a couple of nitpicks, I’ll take the opinion of a guy who has actually walked on the fucking moon over some desperate-for-attention whore on Twitter.

I read his feed earlier this morning and didn’t get the same tone from it as many people on here. I think many people go into reading it with a certain mindset when the title of the post calls it a ‘rant’

I think it depends upon whether you think he’s being smug, or just smirking at what he says. Case in point, he corrected the Daily Show about the earth spinning in the wrong direction in their opening graphics. Dude just sees the world in a different way.

You’re not the only person to think it’s a stupid concept. I saw it this weekend in IMAX 3D and it was quite honestly one of the most immersive, gut-wrenching, exciting and emotional pieces of film I’ve seen in a long time. It’s well worth the sticker price for IMAX to see it there. Get over your smug bullshit and go see the movie.

I agree with you. As much as people have been saying that it’ll scare the shit out of you or whatever, I think I’ll be more pleased to see Sandra Bullock in trouble than I would be scared of space because of it.

It’s not “scary.” It’s a thriller, but it’s incredibly intense & beautiful. I KNOW that it’s CGI & etc, but you forget about it if you let yourself just sit back & enjoy it. IMAX would be awesome, but 3D is worth it.

Yeah this is some pretty mild critique. If you spend your lifetime studying space, then you’re probably going to have a problem immersing yourself in the film should it get some things wrong. As usual, Josh drums up discussion and page clicks by calling some light-hearted nitpicking a “rant.” I really need to just stop clicking these articles.

I don’t know which is worse – that a large number of these “critiques” are mere opinions (like apparently because 2001 exists no other film set in space can be breathtaking), but some are just flat-out wrong (some satellites are placed in retrograde orbit, and plenty of satellites are placed in sun-synchronous orbit).

Of course, none of these will ever top his greatest tweet ever, [i.imgur.com] where The Greatest Scientific Mind Alive Today, Apparently, sagely observes that contrary to what you might have heard in history class, the reason Italian is so much less widespread than Spanish is because Italians are Catholics. The reason why every place the conquistadors settled is to this day predominantly Catholic is no doubt due to dagos stowing away on Spanish ships.